See You At the Pole had a huge turn-out this morning at South Middle School. It was so encouraging to see so many kids show up early to pray for our community and their school. Definitely made having to get up so early worth it!
We, as usual, have a crazy busy week and honestly I will be glad when soccer season is over and we can spend evenings hanging out as a family. This will be the first year in a a few years that we haven't had someone playing basketball and BOY am I thankful. Speaking of thankful, we have not been hit with the flu yet at our house, but North Middle School in our County was closed down for the week because of H1N1. There just weren't enough kids there to justify opening the school. South hasn't been hit that hard yet and I spend every night praying that it won't. This is a nasty flu and I nor my kids want it!
I have made a committment to start nightly devotionals again with the kids and the first thing we are going to be focusing on is our "speech". I know that this is something I can use lots of work on and so we are going to be searching the Bible for scriptures about how we are to speak. The one thing I do know is that we are to speak sords of encouragement to each other and build each other up! And, trust me, we don't realize how often we speak words of discouragement or criticism to others in our families. I pray that God will work in our family and help us to build each other up from here on out - the Lord knows we don't get it out in the world, so let's definitely give it to those whom we hold dear.
Praying that anyone reading this post be blessed and protected this week! Love to you each and everyon!
